Funerals

Funerals By: Shannon Henry

Fun Facts:

Depending on the person (male or female):

• Your body could be facing a different direction.
• Women's heads are faced to the west so she may see the sunset and know when to prepare dinner.
• Some people may place the head towards the east, the rising sun.
• Men put aside money for an elaborate funeral.

Believes:

• When there is a lot of music played, the better the afterlife for the person who died.
• A dead family member will come back in reincarnation on the sister's or mother's side of the family.
• They believe in reincarnation. (the soul returns to earth in a new form)

Death:

• Death is not considered an end, but a transition.
• No matter what religion all Nigerians bury their dead.
• The dead are buried a day after they die.
• When an elder dies there is a week of mourning.

How to Bury the Body:

• Most bodies are covered with black earth, because they believe that the red earth will give skin blemishes.

This is a picture of a mass grave. They do these for deaths that all occurred at the same time, from the same thing. Sickness, Fires, etc.



This is a picture of a women crying at a Nigerian funeral.


A young boy crying with his mother at a funeral.


Websites Used:

http://www.everyculture.com/Ma-Ni/Nigeria.html

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-10818132_ITM

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-75373579/demon-superstition-abominable-twins.html

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